Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at IDG, where she works on analyzing data (both for IDG Enterprise Web sites and journalism projects) and in-house editor tools in addition to writing and editing. Her tech interests include data visualization and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is currently somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism is due out late this year.
How many H-1B workers are female? US won’t say
Government resistance to releasing H-1B gender data frustrates advocates who have q uestions about the program's impact on the workforce
How Verizon analyzes security-breach data with R
Senior data scientist calls the Verizon Data Breach Report a 'love letter to R'
Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use
An H-1B lottery arms race may be in progress, as offshore outsourcers with ties to India once again snapped up tens of thousands of skilled-worker visas
Esri to unveil mapping tools in R
Software 'bridge' to connect ArcGIS map data and R can also be used on other geospatial files
Google, Microsoft, Oracle back new R Consortium at Linux Foundation
The big vendors are among founding members of a consortium aimed at strengthening technical and user communities
Data wrangling with R: Download the free PDF
Sort, summarize, reshape, and more with this free guide to R data munging
For 74 percent, STEM degrees lead to non-STEM jobs
Census data provides detail about computer-related employment, and raises questions about whether there is a U.S. shortage of STEM workers
R data manipulation tricks at your fingertips
Excel tips and tricks for manipulating dates, and for getting data into the format you need, are also ready for your R pleasure
Offshore firms took 50 percent of H-1B visas in 2013
Government data shows a major share of the H-1B visas go to firms that use visa holders to displace U.S. workers
Federal IT hiring slips with political deadlock
Data shows a downward trend in IT hiring after a jump in the size of the government's IT workforce
Beginner's guide to R: Syntax quirks you'll want to know
Part 5 of our hands-on guide covers some R mysteries you'll need to understand.
Beginner's guide to R: Introduction
Interest in the R statistics language is soaring, especially for data analysis. Get to know this hot programming option in our beginner's guide
Beginner's guide to R: Get your data into R
In part 2 of our hands-on guide to the hot data-analysis environment, we provide tips on how to import data in various formats, both local and on the Web
Beginner's guide to R: Easy ways to do basic data analysis
Congrats, you've read your data into an R object. Now take the next step
Beginner's guide to R: Painless data visualization
Learn how to paint a picture with data with R, using just a couple lines of code
Software employment grows 45 percent in 10 years as angst in engineering grows
One unemployed electrical engineer, whose wife challenged President Obama on H-1Bs, is back at work
Top users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers
Analysis of the latest U.S. government data on users of H-1B visas shows the major beneficiaries of an increase in the cap would likely be offshore outsourcers
How to prevent your own 'epic hack' with a 60-minute security makeover
Beef up security on your digital life -- before someone duplicates the hack that seized control of a reporter's Apple, Amazon, and Google accounts
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